Coronavirus UK: call to scrap 'triple lock' on pensions after crisis

All generations should have to help pay for massive economic cost, says thinktank

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The coalition government policy that led to state pensions rising quicker than wages should be scrapped as part of an "intergenerational reciprocation" for the costs of battling Covid-19, a thinktank has said.

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) proposes that the massive economic cost of the emergency measures deployed to manage the pandemic must be shared fairly between old and young, and that some of the huge anticipated government deficit could be funded by abandoning the so-called triple lock guarantee on state pension rises.